Dr. Kiran Joshi currently serves as Senior Medical Officer at the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH), where he oversees the department’s Emergency Preparedness, Chronic Disease, and Epidemiology units. Since joining CCDPH, Dr. Joshi has been responsible for supervising the development of WePlan 2020, the community health assessment and improvement plan for suburban Cook County, developing an infrastructure for clinical community linkages in the Cook County Health and Hospitals System, and has provided leadership in the agency response to communicable disease outbreaks. Dr. Joshi is also currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.